Order Or Chaos?

The idea of bringing order out of chaos has deep roots in the consciousness of Man. We read in the Israelite scriptures repeatedly that God brings order (a good thing) out of the formless chaos of the Sea (sometimes represented by the sea monster Leviathan). The same or similar concept of a primordial chaos being subjected to divinely derived order is present in the mythical thought of virtually all peoples. The concept of a periodic renewal of that order, or a celebration of the ordering of chaos, is also a feature of most societies—often in the form of more or less wild (chaotic) celebrations of a New Year, followed by a resumption of or recommitment to the divinely ordained order (New Year resolutions).

Orthodox Christian faith with its foundational belief in creation ex nihilo represents a break with these mythic forms of thought, but the Neo-gnostic ideologies of our modern world embrace the older mythic style enthusiastically—in forms that are more or less benign, or not so benign. The appeal to a New World Order, repeated over and over since the Enlightenment, is a clear example: Enlightened modern man, freed from the chains of a chaotic and ignorant traditional past, will break through to a New Order of his own making that will initiate a Heaven on Earth—often inaugurated by an outburst of orgiastic violence in which the representatives of Chaos are put to death or publicly humiliated. Or both. The French Revolution, the Cultural Revolution—examples could be multiplied almost indefinitely. This phenomenon is so much a feature of modern life that it’s almost the air that we breathe.

Notable in modern Neo-gnostic ideologies is that the New Order of the world—which frequently is only vaguely defined—is no longer divinely sanctioned. Rather, as in Marx’s thought, it involves a Promethean revolt against the gods of the past in which a New Man takes control of his own very nature—making of himself what he wills to be, unshackled by a human nature. Thus, for example, the WEF’s appeal to a Trans Human future.

The mindset of modern neo-gnostic ideologues and revolutionaries is perfectly captured by George Soros:

One thinks of Hegel, watching Napoleon riding through the streets of Jena, and realizing that he (Hegel) and the World Spirit were One. It is this sense exaltation that blinds Neo-gnostic revolutionaries to the evil of their undertaking and the crimes against their fellow men that they commit.

Then again there are those Neo-gnostic revolutionaries who are more calculating, who delight in the feeling that they are the puppet masters who manipulate history to their own purposes—willing history into being, as it were. Consider Saul Alinsky:

and his detailed rules for achieving the New Order:

RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”

RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”

RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”

RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”

RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”

RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”

RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”

RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

But note: Alinsky, in common with all Neo-gnostics, is long on destruction but short on construction—short on building the New Order. The future tends to be ill defined, which is why it never actually works, unless the goal is precisely a rebellious flipping off of the divine order of human nature and a return to the primordial chaos. Just for the hell of it, in a manner of speaking. This is the attitude that Marx embraced in his doctoral thesis, even to the extent of mutilating a line from a Greek tragedy to make his point: In a word, I hate all gods.

It is this Ur-Marx, the Marx before Das Kapital, that Cultural Marxists hearken back to. We see this in the chaotic multiplication of “genders”, the demand that we all be free to invent ourselves and break the bonds of nature in an orgy of “cancelation”. Whereas in the mythic form of thought chaos is evoked in order to embrace the goodness of ordered existence in the world (kosmos), modern Neo-gnostics embrace destruction for its own sake, rejection reason to embrace unreason—amid a chaotic and ever expanding deluge of rationalizations.

Zhou’s words to the Business Council CEO’s yesterday reflect all this—for all the banality of the speaker and the seeming respectability of the CEOs. And yet we know that our Establishment, our rulers, have embraced woke Neo-gnosticism for their own purposes—the Will to Power.

Zhou spent much of remarks referring to the war in Ukraine—initiated by the forces of Chaos unleashed by Putin. It turns out that, just as Covid was seen as a weirdly providential (i.e., provided by “history”, not by God) opportunity to inaugurate the Great Reset of the New World Order, so too is the tragic war in Ukraine another opportunity to accomplish the same thing—the first attempt appearing to have fallen flat.

An aside.

I say that the Covid inspired attempt to race ahead to the Great Reset fell flat. We’ve seen the increasing revolt against the Covid Regime here in the US. Yesterday Lifesite ran an article that confirmed what was—to the best of my knowledge—only rumored in the wake of Justin Castreau’s attempt to go full authoritarian in the wake of the Freedom Convoy:

Canadians withdrew millions of dollars from banks after Trudeau ordered accounts frozen

Yet, even in the face of these failures and catastrophic polling that demonstrates widespread opposition to the chaos of BLM and CRT, Zhou and his cohorts are determined to forge ahead to a vague New World Order:

I think — you know, my mother had an expression: “Out of everything terrible [Chaos], something good [Order—a New Order] will come if you look hard enough for it.”

I think this presents us with some significant opportunities to make some real changes. You know, we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy — not just the world economy, in the world. It occurs every three or four generations.

As one of — as one of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting the other day, 60 — 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946. And since then, we’ve established a liberal world order, and that hadn’t happened in a long while. A lot of people dying, but nowhere near the chaos.

And now is a time when things are shifting. We’re going to — there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. And we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.

It’s all there, the standard mythic concepts of modern Neo-gnostics: Chaos, a New World Order formed from our own efforts, an inflection point in history, the idea of a cyclical nature to history—repetition, the eternal return “every three or four generations”. Like Heidegger rushing to meet Dasein—authentic being—in the onrushing futurity of history in the person of the Fuehrer, the utterly pedestrian Zhou says he will lead us into … what, exactly? A “new world order,” to be sure, but what will that look like? There will be “real changes”—but what changes? Presumably if you have to ask you wouldn’t get it anyway. It’s all to be done through a bizarre inversion of Christian faith, transformed from reasonable belief into blind acceptance of irrational desires. “I believe” we are at an “inflection point”— belief based on evidence, or desire? The placid reference to tens of millions of dead people certainly doesn’t inspire confidence. Not for any student of history. The idea that we’ve got to be the ones to lead the New World Order, that we’ve got to unite the rest of the “free world,” is also troubling. What happens to the recalcitrant? Does being part of the “free world” mean freedom to opt out of the New World Order? One suspects that freedom in the New World Order will end up being compulsory freedom. Just as you’ll own nothing but be happy—or else—so too you’ll embrace the new order of freedom and be happy—or else. A new, even contradictory, concept—but we’re used to that type of New Think by now.

The mantra like repetition of these stale formulae, the constant claim to be “on the right side of history”—it’s all intended to convey a sense of inevitability to the Great Reset. At the same time, this induces Neo-gnostics to keep pushing forward, even into war after war, until finally resistance takes shape. I cited a few examples of the resistance that’s taking place here at home, but it’s also taking shape abroad. Behind Zhou’s seemingly nondescript words lurks something terrible. The rest of the world is coming to see America, not as a harbinger of true human freedom—which can only be a freedom ordered within the bounds of human nature—but as an almost demonic pursuit of Power for its own sake, untethered to human considerations. A threat to human well being.

Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar

Grandmaster Lavrov spells it all out - in one minute.

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